If most Publishers made a Home Console, who would have the best First Party?

[DrakeBros]

RolStoppable said:

DrakeBros said:

I think you didn't get my point. What I was trying to say was that Wii U sold the most in the same period when it got a lot of third-party support. And when third-party support dried Wii U's sales also fell. So there is a direct correlation between Wii U's sales and the (few) third-party games it got.

What that also says is that Wii U would have sold even less without third-party, especially in Japan where games like MH, DQ and Taiko did help to sell systems, and it would have had a bad start too which third-party prevented from happening.

That's not a good point because sales at launch are inflated by virtue of it being a new product. And given that the sales of almost every third party game during the launch period can be described as negligible, you can't really make a case that these games moved hardware. Additionally, if your line of thought held true that third party games drove Wii U hardware sales to a significant degree, then the Wii U could have never been up year over year in 2014 compared to 2013.

Hmm maybe you're right, but they no doubt instilled some confidence on the product among some consumers at that time.